Slide holder for neckties



April 1952 D. B. HICKMAN 2,594,169

SLIDE HOLDER FOR NECKTIES Filed March 9, 1949 mm Dara/0 5. fife/(man A fie/"neg Patented Apr. 22, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE- Application March 9, 1949, Serial No. 80,530

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a necktie holder and it consists in the constructions, arrangements and combinations herein described and claimed.

It is the cardinal object of the invention to provide a necktie holder wherein the tie encirclingmembers are laterally slidable relative to one another providing an opening between a pair of ends of the members whereby the tie may be positioned within the members so as to encircle the tie and retain the same in a neat and orderly fashion when the encircling members are returned to operative closed positions.

More specifically, it is an object of the invention to provide a tie holding device having a clip device for securement to a shirt front and in which a pair of elongated opposed loops are employed slidably interconnected and including means to limit movement between open and closed positions of the loops, the open position of the loops providing a space between adjacent ends of the loops enabling ready positioning of tie portions between said loops and movement of the loops to closed position encircling the tie portions and retaining them neatly in position on the shirt.

Additional objects, advantages and features of invention will be apparent during the course of the following description, considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevation of the tie holder in closed position;

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of a modification;

Figure 3 is a top planview of Fig. 1;

Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of the tie holder in open position;

Figure 5 is a cross section on the line 5--5 of Figure 4.

There is illustrated a necktie holder generally indicated by the reference character It] consisting of a pair of elongated loop members II and I2 slidably inter-connected by means of a sleeve 13, as will be now described, attention being invited to Figure 4 of the drawing.

The loop member II has a leg member M of a length one-half that of the assembled holder and a short leg l5 fixedly secured in the adjacent end of the sleeve i3, the legs being in substantially parallel relation. The loop member l2 includes a leg It of a length corresponding to that of the leg l4 andhas secured thereon any suitable ornament H. The loop 12 also has a long leg I8 substantially parallel to the leg H3, disposed slidably in the sleeve l3. The outer face of the leg I8 is provided with a groove l9 extending medially and longitudinally thereof and the sleeve 13 is formed with an inwardly projecting nodule 20 complemental to the groove Ill. The groove l9 terminates inwardly of the extremity of the leg I 8 defining a stopv 2| limiting outward movement of the leg from the sleeve. The leg I8 is of such length so as to stop short of the leg l5 of the loop member ll when the loop members II and 12 are in their closed positions.

A sleeve 22 is secured to the leg l8 adjacent the bight 23 of the loop, the sleeve being formed with an opening 24 into which an end of a spring clip 25 may be seated and secured to the leg l8 and the sleeve 22 by solderingor otherwise. The length of the sleeve 22 will be such as to abut the opposed end of the sleeve l3 when the legs Id and I6 are brought into end to end relation, as clearly shown in Figure 3.

It will be noted that the plate I! is secured to the leg 16 with a thickness of solder to space the plate out of alignment with the leg M to permit free sliding movement.

In use, the leg l8 of the loop 12 is partially withdrawn through the sleeve l3 until the nodule 20 engages the stop 2!, as illustrated in Figure 4. The clip 25 is then engaged with the shirt hem at the height desired by the user, and respective portions of a tie may then be inserted edgewise between the spaced ends of the legs [4 and I6 as indicated by dotted lines in Figure 4. When the tie portions are arranged between the legs I4 and I6 and the leg I 8 and sleeve I 3, the loop I2 is moved in the direction of the loo-p l l, causing the leg I8 to move into the sleeve l3 until such movement is stopped by engagement between the ends of the sleeves l3 and 22 and respective ends of the legs l4 and I6.

To remove the tie portions from the loop members a reverse of the above operation would be involved.

While I have shown and described a preferred form of the tie holder, this is by way of illustration only, and I consider as my own all such modifications in construction as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

A holder for portions of a necktie comprising a pair of loop members, one loop member having I a long leg member and a short leg member in substantially parallel relation, a sleeve fixed to the short legmember, the other of said loop members having a long leg member disposed slidably within said sleeve, the other leg of said last named loop member corresponding in length to that of the long leg member of said first namedloop member and extending in substantially parallel 2,594,169 3 4 relation thereto, the ends of said last named legs REFERENCES CITED adapted to abut upon inward Sliding movement a The following references are of record in the of said leg within the sleeve, means between the file of this patent:

sleeve andthe leg therewithin for limiting outward sliding movement of the leg, a clip device 5 UNITED STATES PATENTS secured to said last named leg, and an ornamen- Number Name Date 7 tal plateafiixed to one of said abutting leg mem- 1,619,390 Wolf Mar. 1, 1927 bers and projecting therebeyond for overlapping 1,635,791 Jageman July 12, 1927 relation with the opposed leg member. a 2,060,040 Cobb Nov. 10, 1936 10 2,111,166 Carlson Mar. '15, 1938 DARO-LD B. HICKMAN. 2,465,787 Bliek Mar. 29, 1949 

